The Center on Food Security and the Environment is a joint effort of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Nutrition
Recent Scholarly Publications
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Anticipated burden and mitigation of carbon-dioxide-induced nutritional deficiencies and related diseases: A simulation modeling study
July 2018
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are anticipated to decrease the zinc and iron concentrations of crops.
Association Between Women’s Empowerment and Maternal and Child Nutrition in Kalale District of Northern Benin
April 2017
Women empowerment (WE) is increasingly viewed as an important strategy to reduce maternal and child undernutrition,1–3 which continues to be a major health burden in low- and middle-income...
Prevalence of anaemia, deficiencies of iron and vitamin A and their determinants in rural women and young children: a cross-sectional study in Kalalé district of northern Benin
January 2017
Objective: To identify the magnitude of anaemia and deficiencies of Fe (ID) and vitamin A (VAD) and their associated factors among rural women and children.Design: Cross-sectional, comprising a...
Sources of variation in under-5 mortality across sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial analysis
October 2016
The ongoing decline in under-5 mortality ranks among the most significant public and population health successes of the past 30 years.
The Evolving Sphere of Food Security
September 2014
The Evolving Sphere of Food Security seeks to answer two important questions: How do the priorities and challenges of achieving food security change over time as countries develop economically?
Frontiers in Food Policy: Perspectives on Sub-Saharan Africa
December 2013
Frontiers in Food Policy: Perspectives on sub-Saharan Africa is a compilation of research stemming from the Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series, hosted by the Center on Food...
The case for distributed irrigation as a development priority in sub-Saharan Africa
July 2013
Distributed irrigation systems are those in which the water access (via pump or human power), distribution (via furrow, watering can, sprinkler, drip lines, etc.), and use all occur at or near the...
Discussant comments on “Food systems and human health and nutrition: An economic policy perspective with a focus on Africa”
October 2012
Eran Bendavid, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University provides commentary on nutrition and food policy expert Per Pinstrup-Andersen's presentation and paper on "Food systems and...
Green Revolution: Impacts, limits, and the path ahead
July 2012
Reprinted with full permission from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Redefining Security Along the Food-Health Nexus: report of a conference and center launch held at Stanford University on November 10, 2011
March 2012
For most scholars the concept of security encompasses issues of state legitimacy, economic and political sovereignty, and protection from military, nuclear, or terrorist assault.
Smallholder irrigation as a poverty alleviation tool in sub-Saharan Africa
November 2011
Promotion of smallholder irrigation is cited as a strategy for enhancing income generation and food security for sub-Saharan Africa’s poor farmers, but what makes this technology a successful...
Assisting the escape from persistent ultra-poverty in rural Africa
April 2011
This paper was prepared for Stanford University’s Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series, hosted by the Center on Food Security and the Environment, and supported by the Bill and...
Solar-powered Drip Irrigation Enhances Food Security in the Sudano-Sahel
January 2010
Meeting the food needs of Africa's growing population over the next half-century will require technologies that significantly improve rural livelihoods at minimal environmental cost.
Our Daily Bread: Without public investment, the food crisis will only get worse
September 2008
During the eighteen months after January 2007, cereal prices doubled, setting off a world food crisis. In the United States, rising food prices have been a pocketbook annoyance.
Unleashing the Genius of the Genome to Feed the Developing World
December 2005
The prospect of another agricultural revolution evokes both hope and fear.
People
Rosamond L. Naylor Senior Fellow William Wrigley Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor, by courtesy, Economics, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment 
Sam Heft-Neal Research Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford Department of Earth System Science